Where's The Color In Kids' Lit? Ask The Girl With 1,000 Books (And Counting)

Where’s The Color In Kids’ Lit?

Marley Dias is like a lot of 11-year-olds: She loves getting lost in a book.

But the books she was reading at school were starting to get on her nerves. 

Black girls, like Marley, were almost never the main character.

Last fall, Marley decided to do something about it. She set a goal of collecting 1,000 books about black girls by the beginning of February, and #1000blackgirlbooks was born… READ MORE